Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada urgently needs to land a trade deal with the United States but it should not have set a deadline for negotiations because U.S. President Donald Trump “will try to take advantage” of the time crunch.

Just over 100 days into his term, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is taking aim at the size of the state while ramping up military spending. He’s launched a whole-of-government review, pushing deep cuts,

The established ritual for commemorating Canada’s founding is to drive to the quietest place you can near a body of water and drink beer while staring at it. This year, though, Canada Day is not quiet.

The government faces the choice of running bigger deficits, raising taxes or making major spending cuts to meet its NATO target

Canada will rescind a tax on big US technology firms, just hours before first payments were due, to allow trade talks between the two countries to restart. On Friday, US President Donald Trump called off negotiations over a trade deal, describing the tax as a "blatant attack", and threatened higher tariffs on imports from Canada.

As Prime Minister Mark Carney commits to meet the new NATO spending target of five per cent of GDP by 2035, former vice-chief of the defence staff Guy Thibault tells Power & Politics he supports upping Canada's defence spending but warns the government should focus on improving procurement and supporting Canadian Forces personnel.

Of the many measures in the Republican spending bill, however, some will be particularly relevant to Canada and Ontario. The new law amounts to a near-total repeal of tax incentives for electric vehicles and renewable energy under the previous president’s Inflation Reduction Act.

The new bill aims to address criticisms over privacy risks, includes explicit reference to age verification and age estimation and points to UK laws as a model.

Canada’s fiscal picture is getting cloudy given that the current government did not table a post-election budget, and the costed platform has been rearranged by the evolving economic outlook and shifting policy priorities.

Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is calling on the Canadian government to bar the British rap duo Bob Vylan from Canada after the group led the crowd in a chant of death to the Israeli military at the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom over the weekend.